Another Dr McNinja thread

[Fifthfiend]

I would pay like, a hundred dollars for a full run of McNinja comics done MSPA style.

[Loyal]

MSPA-style, or done by Andrew Hussie?

Because if it's the latter I don't think 100 dollars would be enough. Especially considering it'd mean months of little-to-no MSPA. D:

[Kim]

MSPA-style, or done by Andrew Hussie?

Both, obviously.

[Art of Hilt]

...
...
...
I had a bad day.
But-
That goat-
My day is irrelevant now. My god. That goat has reversed the karmic polarity of my soul.

[Funka Genocide]

seriously man, fuck birds.

[Loyal]

One stole my hot dog when I was at a beach, once.

And I'll never forgive them.

[Aerozord]

what kind of beach has packs of wandering goats?

[Intern Nin]

Maybe it was a beach with a petting zoo?

[Doc ock rokc]

Oddly i am not phased by this...In fact i have hardly been surprised in Dr.mcninja since the Perfectly aimed demolitions

[Art of Hilt]

Honestly though this issue should be titled something like "The Ninja Who Stared at Goats" and then a close-up of the goat's lazerbeaming eyes followed by "AND THE GOAT WHO STARED BACK"

EDIT- Well the recent comic shows that's never going to happen.
Even despite the fact that my god cyborg animals fighting!

[Viridis]

And here I thought it was just some kind of super goat. That would have made for an interesting story.

But I guess robots work too.

[t_catt11]

Super goat would have been cool, but apprently, laser-shooting goats are not to be a major part of this plotline.

Boo.

[Viridis]

What a freaking tease.

Still an interesting aside and way to start a story, though.

[Aerozord]

this is dr mcninja, when has the first page ever introduced a major plot element

[Archbio]

In the first, second, fourth and fifth stories.

[Aerozord]

you make a good point, but (and I'm assuming you check) since the last one was the fifth, and we are on the 12th, I think my point remains valid. Latest trend is, first bit has no obvious involvement with the story

[Viridis]

Augh, that thing is weird. Tiny punching goat spine robot.

[Green Spanner]

I would be satisfied if the entire arc was like this.

[Donomni]

For some reason, I expect one of them to pull out a trap card.

[Wigmund]

I want to play a video game starring Goat, complete with that little victory dance at the end of every boss fight.

[Wigmund]

Gordito's having a nightmare? That explains whats going on...right? Because this is screwed up even by McNinja standards.

[Green Spanner]

Gordito's having a nightmare? That explains whats going on...right? Because this is screwed up even by McNinja standards.

I dunno...seems par for the course to be honest.

[Odjn]

As a reward for killing pirates, Momma and Poppa McNinja give presents?

[Aerozord]

As a reward for killing pirates, Momma and Poppa McNinja give presents?

to the pirates?

[Kim]

I think the presents from the pirates were an attempt at Secret Santa-ing themselves a truce with the McNinjas. Which makes this almost sad.

[Odjn]

Haha! Knew it.

Also there are at least 3 corpses so one or more were actually pirates!

[Aerozord]

not if Doc himself helped. I love how this is their equivalent of Santa

[Wigmund]

And now we reach the plot.

But we still need the title of this issue :(

[t_catt11]

And Doc *did* help.

I wish we celebrated this holiday at my house!

[Aerozord]

AH-HA I got it, they said first born son, its gonna be a long lost brother story

[Wigmund]

A switcheroo! Those damn sneaky sky pirates.

[Yumil]

No switcheroo, just a Dr McNinja from the FUTURE OOoooOoOooOOO!

[greed]

Calling a doppelganger arc. Those creepy naked German monsters.

[Art of Hilt]

WHAT IN THE WHAT

[Gregness]

My money's on the doc that's helping with Katanakka being a pirate imposter.

[Aerozord]

that wouldn't make sense as they want the family to come. Though its not like they even need to kidnapping for that.
Pirate: "lets fight"
Dan: "YOU'RE ON"
Pirate: "ok see you at the park at 4"
Dan: "I'll bring the body bags"

[Loyal]

This story is getting trippy.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Its obviously flawed clone. Obviously. It will soon be revealed to clone Mcninja that he is not the real McNinja, and he will have a severe case of existential cloning blues until Dan kills him seconds after the reveal is made. Ending his story permanently.

[Kim]

Actually, I'm pretty sure that it's a younger Doc that came in through the rift.

[Arcanum]

I think NonCon is on to something here. For those who don't remember, bam. (http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p63) If one of the Docs really is the Cave-Doc then what's weird is how did Cave-Doc grow up so quickly and where did he get that lab coat?

[Aerozord]

I will be both very amused and angry if this whole thing turns out to be a complicated set up to a simple "college days" arc

[Xellos]

I don't know if this occured to anyone else, but ever since "The morning after" page I've been convinced that McNinja was not wearing any pants. I thought maybe he forgot them in his rush.

Now the last panel seems to have proven otherwise, unless he obtained a pair by the door. I don't know if I should be happy or dissapointed.

[Aerozord]

I don't know if this occured to anyone else, but ever since "The morning after" page I've been convinced that McNinja was not wearing any pants. I thought maybe he forgot them in his rush.

Now the last panel seems to have proven otherwise, unless he obtained a pair by the door. I don't know if I should be happy or dissapointed.

I think that depends on your sexual orientation.

also
"you achieved time travel via the over consumption of ethanol?! I thought it was only a legend!!"
is my new signiture

[phil_]

Time travel via ethanol? Preposterous. Everyone knows that ethanol lets you teleport, not travel through time.

[Bard The 5th LW]

So have these other Doctors been living individual and separate lives from the one we knew? Have we been seeing many different ones?

[Aerozord]

I am fairly certain we have been following the same one, because the way it was described each live seperate lives, and we can deduce this is the same one because of those around him on a daily basis. Things would get messy if they like kept swapping him in and out of bed

[Art of Hilt]

I think the McNinja we've been following already has all the clones back in him, except for the one captured by pirates who was busy learning Agriculture.

Also Ben Franklin straight up tells those dudes who is the boss and who is the clone. Good way of avoiding the ridiculous "I DON'T KNOW WHO TO SHOOT" scenarios.

[Amake]

I want to know why the clones just go along with this plan. Wouldn't "rejoining" McNinja prime equal death to them? Or is their consciousnesses combined with his along with their memories? Cause that should turn him into something like Alpha from Dollhouse.

Although, if they can get around or handwave that problem, this would be the most awesome use for cloning yet. :3

[Archbio]

I want to know why the clones just go along with this plan.

Evidence suggests that they didn't all go along with it.

[Amake]

Yeah yeah, all but one. Though they all ninja vanish pretty enthusiastically in the flashback.

Re. Nique, I've been thinking that too, but then I realized it's a long road from "raising the bar for awesome so hard it achieves escape velocity week after week" and "downhill". It might be leveling out a little, but that only proves it's made by humans.

[Nique]

You know I think Chris is loosing his stride. McNinja seems to be going downh- WHOA Wait WTF? Clones? Alright I'm on board again.

[Art of Hilt]

I want to know why the clones just go along with this plan. Wouldn't "rejoining" McNinja prime equal death to them? Or is their consciousnesses combined with his along with their memories?

I guess the latter; Franklin saying that it would be simpler if only one McNinja has a 'life' suggests that multiple McNinjas having a life would result in a weird multiple-personality-memory thing upon recombination. So it would really be in their best interests for there to only be one, I'd think.

[Aerozord]

from what I can tell I think its because of Doc's own innate obsession with learning. They are perfectly ok with spending nearly a decade studying for no reason but to add to their collective knowledge.

He wouldn't really have multiple personalities since the core of his personality is the same in all of them and they wouldn't do much beyond study so he shouldn't end up crazy, plus one probably has a degree to solve any issues.

That is not to say he did that. In fact I think he just plain forgot that he had a clone army out there, and the clones probably forgot too. Take what he said in the last panel. He didn't expect to do more then learn medicine, just like the others didn't expect to do more then learn, whatever. They probably all stuck with their respective fields.

ooo that means somewhere, we have a Farmer McNinja

[Nique]

ooo that means somewhere, we have a Farmer McNinja

NUUUUUUTS!

[PCD]

Remember that one time when McNinja died, waaaaay back when?

And his soul was split into two parts, one a ninja, one a doctor?

Just sayin'.

[Viridis]

from what I can tell I think its because of Doc's own innate obsession with learning. They are perfectly ok with spending nearly a decade studying for no reason but to add to their collective knowledge.

He wouldn't really have multiple personalities since the core of his personality is the same in all of them and they wouldn't do much beyond study so he shouldn't end up crazy, plus one probably has a degree to solve any issues.

That is not to say he did that. In fact I think he just plain forgot that he had a clone army out there, and the clones probably forgot too. Take what he said in the last panel. He didn't expect to do more then learn medicine, just like the others didn't expect to do more then learn, whatever. They probably all stuck with their respective fields.

ooo that means somewhere, we have a Farmer McNinja
I'm thinking that most rejoined except this one. The Doctor seems to have many degrees and this has never come up before. He only just realized that he's missing one and only one.

At leas that's what I saw. The captured Doctor is the one that was getting the agricultural science degree.

Seems silly when Fridge Logic gets applied, though. He didn't do a headcount when all the clones came back?

[Aerozord]

well that still means we got farmer McNinja

though re-reading it two more bits of fridge logic. if thats his degree why is he wearing a labcoat, and more importantly why wasn't McNinja's dad suspecious of why he was paying for his son to get 50 eight year degrees all at the same time

[Viridis]

Given how stealthy they were supposed to be you could suppose they all funded their own educations somehow.They're young, bright college ninjas. They'll find ways.

Him being dressed the same as McNinja Prime is a little odd. I'm thinking he always wanted to have a lab coat since before he was cloned and Dr McNinja would use ANY PhD as an excuse to wear one. It trails behind him like Batman!

[Aerozord]

Given how stealthy they were supposed to be you could suppose they all funded their own educations somehow.

which wouldn't suprise me except Pa McNinja said he paid for "all those degrees"

[Viridis]

which wouldn't suprise me except Pa McNinja said he paid for "all those degrees"

Hm, good point. Forgot about that.

[Art of Hilt]

More fridge logic: Maybe Dr McNinja wasn't just being crazy in this fourth panel? (http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p38)

Comic just updated- SON OF A BITCH

[Aerozord]

ok dont normally do this but I read todays comic. And, well this needlessly complicated things, which in Dr McNinja is always a good sign

[Wigmund]

Woo-hoo six pages of exploding McNinjas - I can't wait!

And I wonder who our Time Traveler from the future you son of a bitch is?

[Viridis]

Clearly Franklin's cloning research wrecked up the future something awful. Or maybe the guy has just always wanted to punch Franklin. Hates the post office and fire department or something.

[Aerozord]

my money is on it being a Doctor McNinja

[Donomni]

Probably the original, after he went through a bunch of insane shit because a clone got caught.

Which he finds out was because his time travel botched it up.

Stable time loops are a bitch.

[Art of Hilt]

That one clone had to wade through the whole crowd from the other side of the room just to let the original know what's up.
Nobody can say that the doctor doesn't take care of himself.

[Arcanum]

Probably the original, after he went through a bunch of insane shit because a clone got caught.

Which he finds out was because his time travel botched it up.

Stable time loops are a bitch.

I think that option is out the window at this point. If it was McNinja then he would know about the machine.

[Steel Shadow]

Oh, it's still the Doc. He's from last night, before he found out about the machine, and he's really, realllly drunk.

...I don't know if I'll be disapointed or not if this turns out to be true.

[Aerozord]

when something has MASSIVELY UNSTABLE written on it, its typically a bad idea to break it

[Arhra]

Pish, posh. If it has MASSIVELY UNSTABLE written on it, you must break it.

With your fist!

[Arcanum]

Well so much for finding out who the time-traveling-golden-astronaut is.

That is until later on, when it is revealed in order to tie everything together.

[Art of Hilt]

The clone dude was just late.
God I love this comic.

[Wigmund]

Screw the current storyline, I want to hear more about Chainsaw-wielding Abe Lincoln fighting that Mammoth.

[Arcanum]

Screw the current storyline, I want to hear more about Chainsaw-wielding Abe Lincoln fighting that Mammoth.

I second this.

[Bard The 5th LW]

This may have been foreshadowed in this (http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12) comic.

It will be even better if it was Jefferson who had just attacked Franklin.

[Masaki-kun]

Stupid Jetpack Jefferson.

[Aerozord]

Theory: all of America's presidents are in fact time travelers.

[Arcanum]

Wow, didn't see that coming. The whole astronaut suit should've been a dead give away though. I wonder how he got the time travel tech though, and what time he's actually from.

[Bard The 5th LW]

This is getting trippy.

Mcninja's flashback has just been turned into the story of a time traveling Chuck Goodrich.

Its a story within a story within a story. I think Hastings is just screwing with us now.

[krogothwolf]

I hate Chuck Goodrich as he has deprived us of a potential Zombie Ninja Apocalypse. A horrible horrible man he is!

[Art of Hilt]

HO
LY

SHIT

That makes much more sense than anything I could have guessed. I mean, even the astronaut suit!

I'm ashamed for not even giving him a thought before. Although, to be fair, I thought it was supposed to look like a Victorian diver's suit at first.

[Aerozord]

did he stop it? I mean didn't we have ninja zombies running around like, 3 chapters ago. Sure it wasn't an apocalypse, but I think thats mostly because of his other counter measures

[Viridis]

I'm assuming the events from that chapter are what he was trying to stop. He somehow saw the events of Chapter 5 from the future (maybe the future's a zombie wasteland) and came back to stop it. He wrongly assumed it had something to do with that cloning project, hence the fight we just saw. Then he got stuck in 1979 and decides to prepare for the zombies in the way we saw back in Chapter 5. Very, very interesting.

We can maybe assume there's a pre-time travel version where Goodrich's countermeasures weren't in place and the ninja zombies spread and did cause an apocalypse.



Now let's watch me get proven wrong!

[Aerozord]

depends on how much he cares about continuity, because last chapter has evidence that in this setting time travel results in stable time-loops

[Loyal]

So I guess Mongo is not working for the pirates?

Which would mean whoever he IS working for convinced the pirates to capture clone McNinja to lure the REAL McNinja so that he could capture both at once...?

[Art of Hilt]

depends on how much he cares about continuity, because last chapter has evidence that in this setting time travel results in stable time-loops

To be fair, that was a natural wormhole to the past of the same universe.
Manmade time travel can have a different effect.
...
Which yeah I doubt it would too.

[Aerozord]

maybe there is another McNinja that wants to join with the others and become the new Ninja Prime

Which is fun to say

[Art of Hilt]

Man for a second there I thought April's Fools Day came a few days early.
Also no Gordito nooo

[Loyal]

Okay, it's official: Mongo is now the main character.

[Wigmund]

Mongo only pawn in game of life.

[Kim]

"You should be inside me."

That may be the best line in webcomics history.

[Loyal]

Well gee, that was only the fastest plot resolution ever. XD

[Bard The 5th LW]

Yet it felt like the longest. Still liked it though.

[Loyal]

I had not realized this storyline had been going on for a full 64 pages. Goddamn.

[Aerozord]

I have the sneaking suspicion that the inverse ninja law is about to come into effect.

[Viridis]

Does anyone else think the latest page (http://drmcninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010-05-12-17p65.jpg) would make a great wallpaper?

Edit: New page. I think this storyline is just an excuse to tear the Doctor to pieces a bunch of times in gruesome ways.

[Arcanum]

At least Frans is getting some good material for his next movie. Right?

[Art of Hilt]

Sometimes the characters who only show up in the mouseover text are the best characters.

[Aerozord]

I KNEW IT, inverse ninja law

[Doc ock rokc]

I think this is the point where the good doctor Points out that his black eye makes him unique and thus...

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

You know, this series was awesome till Rayner showed up. I am probably the only person who actively disliked Frans Rayner.

[Doc ock rokc]

You know, this series was awesome till Rayner showed up. I am probably the only person who actively disliked Frans Rayner.

nah I do not like him ether. But abusing the Inverse ninja law was brilliant.

[Masaki-kun]

He's not going to point out that the black eye makes him unique. He's going to realize what he can do now that he has one functioning eye. He's going to cross over... to the salty side.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Is it just me or is anyone else finding this particular arc dragging a bit?

[krogothwolf]

Is it just me or is anyone else finding this particular arc dragging a bit?

It's just you. But gratuitous violence requires things to be paced awhile till Dr. McNinja goes Pirate to defeat him!

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

It's just you. But gratuitous violence requires things to be paced awhile till Dr. McNinja goes Pirate to defeat him!

Maybe it's the fact that I don't like Rayner and thought he was one of the worse villains in the comic.

[Kim]

I'm of the opinion that the comic has failed to surpass the Dracula arc, so it feels like it's gone downhill, but it's still plenty enjoyable.

[tacticslion]

I'm of the opinion that the comic has failed to surpass the Dracula arc, so it feels like it's gone downhill, but it's still plenty enjoyable.

Nothing can surpass the Dracula arc. NOTHING. I mean, he surfed a robat dracula to earth from space. There's just no where to go after that!

That said: McNinja going Pirate would be epic.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

You know my initial reaction was he was gonna take his mask off http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p32

Then I thought "Wait that's too obvious and there's no way"
But then I realized "Wait that's exactly what I thought when I thought the inverse ninja law would bite the Doc in the ass"
and then I was confuzzled.

[Loyal]

Somehow this is so much better than anything else I had imagined.

[Bard The 5th LW]

They're harnessing the power of America? The fools! That is much too volatile! There's no telling what may happen!

[Gregness]

Nuh-uh, he's throwing the inverse ninja law back in Raynor's face.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Yeah that was kind of obvious actually.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Slowly but surely the clones pick up on the plan, and sneak off to don the American Ninja look. Until only one is left in his original form, desperately stumbling towards the fray.

With a battle cry of 'Hewe comes EXTWA CWISPY', he charges into combat. Assured of victory against the legion of evil ninjas.

[Donomni]

So instead of unmasking, he turned himself into a Dudeja?

Does this mean he's gonna kick the asses of all the clones, or what?

grth's theory makes sense, though.

Unfortunately it will likely be the original Old McNinja that does the victorious ass-kicking.

[Aerozord]

hmm I'm going with something slightly less expected, that its mister "I'm a farmer" that will be the one left standing

[Art of Hilt]

Both Frans and the McNinja clones ask the same question.
They are all very confused.

PS- "Frans! You don't have to be alone anymore, Frans! Frans! Now you have FRIENDS, Frans! FRIENDS WHO WILL INEVITABLY BETRAY YOU"

[Wigmund]

As grth said, it's gonna be the Reject McNinja as the lone survivor and he's gonna kick Fran and the Original Recipe's asses.

That is until Mongo jumps in and teaches Extra Crispy the power of love.

[Aerozord]

just had a dark thought, that McNinja is gonna sacrifice the clones, slaying them all so only him and Frans survive, then deal with him one on one

[tacticslion]

just had a dark thought, that McNinja is gonna sacrifice the clones, slaying them all so only him and Frans survive, then deal with him one on one

Alternatively, it could be that he's planning on having Frans reject his friendship and, when he does, have the cliche of him being defeated by his own hubris counter the cliche of being able to destroy multiple ninjas.

[Archbio]

I have a really hard time visualizing Frans actually restraining himself from attacking the original McNinja long enough for all of the clones to be defeated.

[greed]

....so rejecting the power of friendship got Frans killed? Is that what happened?

[tacticslion]

....so rejecting the power of friendship got Frans killed? Is that what happened?

... yes. Huh. I called it, and somehow I still didn't really see this coming.

[Aerozord]

that or maybe just, giving up, hard to say.

[Doc ock rokc]

I think it's A mix of the Inverse Ninja law and A reversal of The power of Friendship.
We already Know how the Inverse Law works. depending on how unique a person is is how close they are to 1 (or Badass) so when the Doc showed up looking like him It cut him inhalf.
Second We know By the Power of Friendship laws that a person that accepts the Friendship slips out of The IN law and into the law of Distribution Of Ninjutsu (in which the Person who befriended him then becomes more powerful and the Person befriended stays the same but boosts the other dood.

[Carade]

Today's comic made my day. The rest of the day could be crap, and this comic would balance it out.

[Specterbane]

Here's the thing, it's all based on the 80's evil-ninjas-get-beat-buy-rough-detectives idea (the whole thing that made Franz a star). That's what Doc is using to survive, now that it's back to 1 on 1 we'll see how Franz get's beaten down by the Doc.

[greed]

Okay todays was awesome even by McNinja standards.

I spy, with my little eye, a ninja who's about to die.

[Loyal]

Haha. Eye-laser induces hangovers.

[Specterbane]

HA! I just realized that Gordito is going to be the army of one.

[Viridis]

Gordito's story would be amazingly creepy from the point of view of a pirate, alone as he hunts them down one by one.

[Art of Hilt]

Does this mean Gordito gets extra Katanaka presents.

[Viridis]

Look at Dan and Mitzi's faces. He gets all the Katanaka presents.

Edit: Really wish I could post again and bump this but whatever. The Judy/kitten arc is priceless.

And then this happened:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2383368/axecopmcninjapromoweb.jpg